The illegal imprisonment without conviction of Citizen Nnamdi Kanu, a premeditated action by the Federal Government of Nigeria

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu 

The illegal imprisonment without conviction of Citizen Nnamdi Kanu, a premeditated action by the Federal Government of Nigeria 

June 25, 2024 | The Biafran Times

By Charles Opanwa

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, was first arrested in 2015, charged with offences of treasonable felony, unlawful possession of arms, and illegal importation of broadcast equipment, at a Federal High Court in Abuja. Unable to convict him of any of the aforementioned crimes, Kanu was granted bail in April 2017 on medical grounds. 

As though the 18 MONTHS in jail and the resultant health deterioration weren't enough, the marauding Nigerian Soldiers raided his country home in Afara Ukwu, Umuahia, in September 2017. That left 28 unarmed innocent young men dead, and several others wounded. The prime target, Kanu, however, in some miraculous way, survived the assault ... though not without life-threatening injuries. After 14 months of incommunicado ...a period believed to have been spent on recuperation, Kanu made a public appearance in the Western Wall of Jerusalem.

In April 1, 2019, Kanu filed an application through his lawyer, Barr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor,  urging the court to restore his bail on the ground that the court will guarantee his safety when he comes back to the country to continue his trial. The trial judge, Justice Binta Nyako, whose son and husband are at the mercy of Nigerian government, however turned this request down, adding that the only way she could guarantee Kanu’s safety is to keep him in PRISON.

On June 18, 2021, Citizen Nnamdi Kanu was abducted in Nairobi, Kenya. He was tortured and detained in a private facility for 8 DAYS before his extraordinary rendition to Nigeria. 

Citizen Kanu took his case to the appeal court on October 13, 2022. The appeal court cleared him of all charges filed by the federal government, yet he was held back ... illegally. In December 2023, grossly influenced by the federal government, the supreme court upturned the judgement.

From the date of Citizen Nnamdi Kanu's extraordinary rendition to Nigeria, Kanu has spent THREE YEARS in jail yet his trial is yet to begin. One therefore can't help but wonder if the illegal imprisonment of Nnamdi Kanu without conviction is a  government premeditated action.

Place Arms Embargo On The Nigerian Government, IPOB Calls On Italian Government

Place Arms Embargo On The Nigerian Government, IPOB Calls On Italian Government

April 24, 2024 | The Biafra Times

IPOB PRESS RELEASE 

The global family and movement of the indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by the great and indomitable leader Mazi Nnamdi Okwu Kanu calls on the Italian Government to halt sale of  airforce Jets to the Nigeria government, but instead place an arms embargo on the Nigeria Government for flagrant violations of human rights and shelling of peaceful Communities of Indigenous peoples in Nigeria. 

We call on all civilized nations to stop further sales of military hardware and software to Nigeria because of their pretense of fighting terrorists. The Nigeria government has created the terrorist groups that they are pretending to have been fighting in order to displace Indigenous nations and allow individuals in power to loot the country's funds. Therefore, we appeal to the Italian government to stop the military aircraft purchase deal they entered into with the Nigeria government. We also ask other countries considering selling arms to Nigeria to stop because Nigeria is not using the arms for their intended purposes. IPOB has no intention to interfere with the Italian Government's business but wants to inform them that the  Nigeria military have not used the previously acquired arms and ammunition including fighter jets to fight terrorists who operate in the open in the Northern Nigeria but have targeted innocent and peaceful people. Unarmed IPOB members have also been the victims of Nigeria military's brutality. Some of the Internally Displaced People's (IDP) Camps in Nigeria have been intentionally bombed by the Nigeria military to prevent the displaced persons from returning to their communities already ceded to the terrorists as their own. Recently, an Okuama Community in Delta State, Nigeria, was invaded, bombed, and the entire community displaced by the Nigeria military. The Nigerian government and her murderous military are known for human rights violations and genocide against her civilians.

In 2021, the Nigerian Air Force bought "12" A-29 Super Tucano Jets from the United State of America to fight terrorism in Nigeria.

After the delivery of those fighter jets, they were deployed in the Eastern region of the country and were used in bombing of Igbo villages and its people mostly in Orlu Local Government Area of Imo State.

From the day the Tucano jets arrived Nigeria in 2021 till late 2023, they were never used against terrorists but were consistently used in bombing of innocent people in Imo State in the Eastern part of the country that is Biafra land and also in bombing of ID camps in the North who are victims of Boko Haram terrorists attacks.

The Nigerian government's plan to purchase about 20 more fighter jets from Italy for the Nigerian Air Force now raises the question;

Why would the Italian government consider selling fighter jets to Nigeria to be used on innocent, armless and peaceful Igbo communities  like the U.S. deed in 2021? If the Italian government cares about the lives of Indigenous Peoples in Nigeria, then this deal has to be cancelled because it is a threat to the lives of millions of people resident in the Eastern region (Igboland).

Nigeria government deceived United State of America in 2021 that those Tucano jets will be used against terrorists in the country, have they also told another lie to the Italian government so that they can secure the purchase of these Air Force jets?

We are watching.

The live of the Indigenous Biafrans must be protected at all means by cancelling this deal to sell arms to Nigeria.

It is public knowledge that the Nigerian government and her military are not sincere in the fight against terrorists. Instead, they are after unarmed activists and innocent Nigerians. The Nigerian government is indirectly sponsoring terrorists and that is why there is no terrorist in detention or on trial in Nigeria. On the contrary, the arrested terrorists have all been released by the Nigeria government and her military. The Nigeria government negotiates with the terrorists and pay them millions of dollars in ransom. These terrorists operate freely from their   camps in the open desert vegetation of the Northern Nigeria, which can easily be mapped out by aerial surveillance of the military. That confirms that the Nigeria government is not sincere in the fight against terrorists but uses terrorism as a means to fleece public funds. 

IPOB urges the Italian government to halt the sale of jets to the Nigeria government because their fight against terrorism is a hoax.  The Italian government should not fall into the Nigeria government's deception. Any supply of arms and ammunition to the Nigeria government is a tacit support to human rights abuse and violations. The Italian government and her citizens are civilized and should not support any government that is violating the fundamental human rights of her citizens. Civilized Nations should not fall into the falsehood peddled by the Nigeria government and her Air Force over fighting terrorists but in reality, they are killing innocent people because of ethnic bigotry and greed.

We are calling on the Italian Prime Minister, Ms. Giorgia Meloni, to place an arms embargo on the Nigeria government for their history of bombing civilian population and for human right violations. The Nigeria government and airforce entered into agreement with the Italian government to supply them 24 aircrafts and for 6 aircrafts to be delivered every six months. The aircrafts were scheduled for every six months starting soon. 

IPOB members worldwide demand civilized nations across the world to stop the supply of arminations to Nigeria because they are indirectly sponsoring Boko Haram and other terrorist groups in Northern Nigeria to continue. 

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL, MEDIA, AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY IPOB.

Southeast Insecurity: Government Aims To Rally The People Against IPOB

By Eluwa Chidiebere Chinazu | Biafra Writers

August 17th, 2023.

Before this wind of insecurity in southeast gummed on the lips of the Nigerian media, the Southeast region has for long been militarized to the brim. Just as with every other territory under military siege in the world, the soldiers assigned to this region have been committing all manner of crimes mostly in the night. They rape, rob, extort, and harass citizens without provocation. Fortunately for the region however, IPOB emerged. 

The rise of insecurity in the region and the consequent spurious moves by the Nigerian government and its pocketed duplicitous media to profile the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) as the culprit, call for urgent attention. Before  we get bamboozled by the enemy media and so cast our stone at IPOB, let us ponder on the processes that brought insecurity into existence in the region. Let's ask ourselves how the insecurity in the Southeast began, what caused it, who is behind it and who fought against it? These are the synoptical questions that will not only help us ascertain the perpetrators but also equip our minds to be able to digest the enemy's scheme in accusing IPOB.

Whenever the issue of southeast insecurity is presented on the table, the Fulani movement called Fulani Nationalism and popularly known as Ruga, should come to mind. The Buhari government through Ruga occasioned insecurity on regions opposed to it. Many lives and properties were destroyed trying to force it on the people. IPOB being the single most important body in that vehement rejection, became an enemy of the government. 

Ruga massacred families, heightened tension, destroyed homes and means of livelihood. The horrible stories of an old women raped in their farms, young girls gangraped, mother and child butchered in their farms, villages burnt etc, were no good news at all. IPOB rose to the occasion.

It is said that politics and insecurity are one. The stealing of the people's mandate through the government's impossition of Hope Uzodinma as the governor of Imo State was to foster the implementation of Ruga. It was also to punish the southeast region that stood against Ruga through IPOB. By stealing the people's mandate, the government created insecurity. 

In a sane society that endorses democracy, protest remains one of the machineries citizens register their feelings. But in a flamboyant disregard to its own law, Nigerian government went ahead to massacre IPOB protesters, creating unnecessary tensions and insecurity. 

If the government intention was never to get at IPOB by creating insecurity in the most peaceful region in the country, what then was the reason behind the massacres.  If the government should enforce a movement that decapitates her citizens, who then occasioned insecurity upon the region?

In all intent and purposes, the Nigerian government in their desperation to demonize IPOB, wants to rally the people against IPOB by accusing IPOB of being behind the insecurity in southeast. My advice to the people is to stay focused and don't get hoodwinked by the brown-envelope Nigerian media lies.

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Biafra War II- What To Expect

By Eluwa Chidiebere Chinazu | Biafra Writers

August 9th, 2023.

On May 27th, 1967, the Chiefs and Elders representing the Eastern Nigeria, after due consideration of the dangers living in Nigeria poses, went ahead to mandate His Excellency, Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, the then Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria, to declare the Eastern Nigeria an independent state known as the Republic of Biafra.

The aftermath of this declaration is the Biafra-Nigeria war. Nigeria was the aggressor. The war which lasted from 1967-1970 was spuriously declared no victor no vanquished even though the three Rs(Rehabilitation, Reconciliation and Reconstruction) were swept under the carpet.

The war ended in 1970 but the heroic deeds of the Biafran people still dominate the media and resonate till date. Within just three years of independence, Biafrans attained a feat that no African country has ever attained up till now. At the time when technology was at its infancy, Biafra became the first and only African country to build and successfully launch a rocket system and a submarine. Biafrans invented their own bomb and spoke to the world through a telecommunication system engineered by local ingenuity. They built armoured tanks, cars, extracted and refined petrol with their own indigenous technology called the 'The Biafran pot.' Etc.

These were in more than 50 years ago when technology has not become a source of income in Biafra. In recent time, technology has become a means of survival for many in Biafra. There are more than fifteen cities in Biafra land today that are known for their geniuses in technology.

These cities are specialists in duplicating,  reproducing and refurbishing all kinds of technologies they can see or lay hands on. Many of them are hiding from the Nigerian government. 

In addition to this, many inventions have been seen on social media and these are coming from Biafrans. According to a Yoruba man, if the Nigerian government is reasonable enough, they should invest a little in technology using Biafrans, because these people are talented in technology.

All over the world Biafrans are making breakthroughs in technology. If these talents could be brought together in a war, the world should be ready for very shocking inventions that would rock the earth. A people don't know their capabilities until they are pushed to war which goes to buttress the conviction that necessity breeds invention. 

In Nigeria, Biafrans are found in all states much more than any other tribe. This is so even as Nigerian authority in its duplicity portrays Biafran population as low in census. If such a people decides to take up arms, to destroy the Nigeria will be very easy as infiltration will be carried out without much obstruction.

A planned war cannot be compared to an unplanned war. The first happened abruptly without enough time to plan. Now there's enough time to plan and enough chances to achieve whatever goal one desires.  

There are millions of reasons and motivations to push a Biafran to war. On the other hand, anyone who dies for Nigeria would be considered a fool by the relatives and friends. Nigeria has pushed her citizens to the wall, majority have lost hope in Nigeria. Will Nigeria be left to perish by her inhabitants? Your answer is as good as mine.

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Nigerian Youths: Kanu The Only Way To Regain Your Voice

Nigerian Youths: Kanu The Only Way To Regain Your Voice 

By Eluwa Chidiebere Chinazu | Biafra Times 

July 3, 2023

It is now two years since this humongous cruelty was meted out against the leader of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Nigerian government contravenes its own law just to crush the freedom fighter. Though the court  discharged and acquitted Kanu of all charges, the government still held him.

The EndSars massacre and the recent unprecedented electoral fraud orchestrated on the people have triggered a cascade of probing questions among the citizens. The youths in particular now wonder if they are of any value in the country they call their own.

While many were still wondering why the victims of EndSars massacre are yet to get justice, the biggest electoral malpractice was occasioned on the people. It was a broad day robbery and the perpetrators didn't even bother to cover their tracks.  Conversations are therefore around the impunity. Why haven't they been brought to book? why wasn't the election cancelled? Is there no voice for the voiceless?

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is the missing rib. While he was out there, he always came handy is situations like this. He is the inspiration the youths crave. The voice in the deep. A game changer whose operations bring the government to board. 

Held in solitary confinement, his voice is caged and the common man emasculated. If the youths would stage any meaningful engagement, then they'd better demand Kanu's release, for him alone is the needed catalyst.

Edited By Nelson Ofokar Yagazie

Published By Charles Opanwa

Farewell Gifts To Buhari, Ors: 700 Christians Slaughtered In May, 1,100 In 60 Days And 2,150 In 160 Days Of 2023

Farewell Gifts To Buhari, Ors: 700 Christians Slaughtered In May, 1,100 In 60 Days And 2,150 In 160 Days Of 2023

June 12, 2023 | The Biafra Times 

...Plateau ‘donated’ 350 Christian lives, Benue 190, Kaduna 100, Nassarawa 62, Niger 50, Taraba 40, Borno/Yobe 40, etc

...El-Rufai and other aiders and abettors must be arrested and tried at ICC over Southern Kaduna/Middle-Belt butcheries

…100 churches wantonly attacked in 60 days and 600 Synagogues and 1000 Traditional Sanctuaries lost in the East since 2021

…53,350 Christians slaughtered since 2009 Islamic uprising and 18,100 churches and 2,200 schools wantonly burned down

 …31,350 Christians hacked to death in eight radical Islamist years of Buhari and El-Rufai and ors, over 200 pastors attacked

…Jihadists sacked 1000 Christian communities: Benue lost 400, Kaduna 245, Plateau200, Taraba100, South-East 60 and ors

 

International Report By Nigeria’s Intersociety

Monday, 12th June 2023, Onitsha-Nigeria

 

Fulani Jihadists Slaughtered 700 Christians As “Farewell Gifts” To Nigerian Radical Islamic Leaders

The Nigerian radical Islamic leaders who marked the end of their civilian office tenures on 29th May 2023 were wished “farewell” by Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen who marked the end of their office tenures by slaughtering not less than 700 defenseless Christians in May 2023 (month of handover). In a detailed investigation by the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, it was gathered that not less than 300 Christians were slaughtered in Plateau State (Mangu county, etc) between 15th and 17th May 2023 alone. The second worst hit State is Benue where not less than 110 Christians were slaughtered in May-early June 2023 including 40 slaughtered between 3rd and 4th June 2023 and 18 defenseless Christians hacked to death on 21st May 2023 as well as 28 others slaughtered between 7th and 10th May 2023. In all, Benue State accounted for over 190 Christian deaths between 12th April and 12th June 2023                       

The third worst hit State is Kaduna where not less than 100 Christians were slaughtered between 12th April and 12th June 2023. The out-gone Government of Kaduna State-backed killing of Christians as “farewell gifts” had included slaughtering of 33 Christians by Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen on 15th April 2023 in Runji village in Atyap, Zango Kataf LGA of Kaduna State, during which 42 houses were burned down or destroyed. Between March and April 2023, not less than 68 Christians were slaughtered in Atyap Land alone; with less than 10 Christian school children abducted on 4th April from Government Secondary School Avon in Kachia LGA of Kaduna State who were taken into Jihadists’ captivity.  According to the Southern Kaduna Peoples’ Union (SOKAPU), not less than 245 Southern Kaduna communities have been sacked and violently occupied by Fulani Terror Jihadists in six years (2017-2023). In Nassarawa State, no fewer than 38 Christian residents of Takalafia and Gwanja communities in the Karu Local Government Area of the State were hacked to death by terror herdsmen who stormed the area on Thursday night (14th May 2023).

 

1,100 Christians Killed By Jihadists In 60 Days And 2,150 In First 160 Days Of 2023 (1st Jan-12th June)

Not less than 1,100 defenseless Christians were hacked to death by Nigerian Government backed Islamic Jihadists in the past 60 days or between 12th April and 12th June 2023; translating to daily average of 17 Christian deaths. The period under review also represents one of the bloodiest in anti Christian attacks in Nigeria. The breakdown of the 1,100 Christian deaths in 60 days (12th April-12th June 2023) shows that Plateau State is the worst hit with 350 Christian deaths, followed by Benue with 200 deaths, Kaduna 100 deaths, Nassarawa 62 deaths, Niger 50 deaths and ethnically and religiously related killings by the Police and Military personnel in the East 50 deaths. Others are Borno/Yobe with 40 Christian deaths, Taraba 40 deaths, Kebbi 20 deaths, South-West 20 deaths, South-East 20 deaths, Adamawa 10 deaths, South-South 10 deaths and FCT 10 Christian deaths. There are also 200 Christian deaths representing “dark figures of crimes” including over 80 Christian deaths omitted in places like Kaduna State, covering 1st January to 10th April 2023 and 10% (70 deaths) of the 700 abductees representing those abducted who are incapable of returning to their families alive. Also In two months gone by, not less than 700 Christians were abducted in Kaduna, Niger, Borno, Taraba, Yobe, Adamawa, Benue, Plateau, Kebbi, Nassarawa, Edo, Osun, Kwara, Kogi, FCT, Ondo, Delta, Enugu, Anambra and Abia States. In the 1,100 defenseless Christian deaths, Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen accounted for not less than 800 killings. We had in our mother Report of 10th April 2023,disclosed that 1,041 defenseless Christians were hacked to death in Nigeria in the first 100 days of 2023 or 1st Jan to 10th April 2023. In all, therefore, it has been investigated and found that a total of not less than 2,150 defenseless Christians have been slaughtered by non state actor/Nigerian Government backed Islamic Jihadists in the past 160 days or 1st Jan to 12th June 2023. Over 1,400 others were abducted; out of which 10% or 140 may be incapable of returning to their families alive. Kaduna State top the list of the abducted with at least 700, followed by Niger State with 300.

1000 Christian Communities Sacked By Jihadists And Government Security Forces Since 2016

Available statistics showed that Nigerian Government protected Jihadists and its Jihad enabler security forces have sacked 1000 Christian communities since 2016 and aided and abetted their takeover and occupation by the Jihadists; out of which, Benue State lost 400 Christian communities, Kaduna 245, Plateau 200, Taraba 100 and South-East 60. Christian communities have also been uprooted in Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, Niger, Kogi, Nassarawa, Kebbi, Kastina, Edo, Delta, Anambra, Enugu, etc.

 

100 Churches Razed In 2 Months: 12th April-12th June 2023

Not less than 100 churches have been razed or burned down or destroyed by Islamic Jihadists in the past sixty days or between 12th April and 12th June 2023; out of which Plateau State lost not less than 28 churches. Several churches suffered similar Jihadist attacks in Southern Kaduna and other parts of the State including Chikun where 40 Christians were abducted in a Chikun church by Fulani Jihadists on 7th May 2023. Churches in Adamawa State also came under attack including abduction of two pastors in Yola and attacks on churches on 24th May 2023. Several churches and hundreds of Christian homes had come under devastating attacks in Benue, Taraba, Borno, Yobe, Katsina, Zamfara, Nassarawa and Kogi States; totaling over 100 church attacks or burnings or destructions  between 12th April and 12th June 2023.

20 Pastors Attacked Since April And 600 Synagogues/1000 Traditional Sanctuaries Since Jan 2021

Available statistics also showed that not less than 20 Christian pastors were abducted or murdered by marauding Nigerian Government protected Islamic Jihadists between 12th April and 12th June 2023. At least three pastors and two Catholic Priests were among those killed and over a dozen others abducted. It was also investigated and found that the personnel of the Nigerian Military, Police and DSS deployed in the South-East and South-South jointly accounted for burning down or destruction of not less than 600 Synagogues and 1000 Traditional Religious Sanctuaries particularly in Imo, Anambra and Abia States since Jan 2021. The burning down or destruction of the Synagogues and Traditional Sanctuaries had arisen from false security intelligence that “members of IPOB/ESN are religious members of Jewish Synagogues and Traditional Religions which provide them with charms and spiritual backups and as a result, all Synagogues and Traditional Sanctuaries are instruments of terrorism and their members Biafra terrorists”.   

Previous Statistics In Our Mother Report Of 10th April 2023

We had on Eastern Monday, 10th April 2023 released a Special Investigative Report and disclosed that “no fewer than 1,041 defenseless Christians were hacked to death by Nigeria’s Jihadists in the first 100 days of 2023 or 1st Jan to 10th April 2023 and over 700 others abducted”. The Report also disclosed that “5,191 defenseless Christians were hacked to death in 2021 and 3,800 others abducted by Nigeria’s Islamic Jihadists” and that “in Jan to Dec 2022, 5,068 defenseless Christians were hacked to death and over 3000 others abducted-with 10% or 300 permanently disappeared or incapable of returning to their families alive”. The Special Investigative Report also held that, “52, 250 Christians and 34,000 moderate Muslims or 85,250 faith believers have been killed by Nigerian Islamic Jihadists and their “Esprit de Jihad” in the Nigerian Government security establishments since July 2009”. The Special Report further found that 30, 250 Christians were hacked to death under Buhari between June 2015 and March 2023; 14 million Christians uprooted and five million forced into IDPs and refugee camps including over 2.5m in Benue State-with over 800 Christian communities sacked, 18,000 churches and 2,200 Christian schools attacked or burned down or destroyed.

 

New Statistics Arising From Our Latest Updates

Our latest updates have now shown that “not less than 1,100 Christians were slaughtered by the Jihadists in the past two months or a total of 2,150 since Jan 2023 or a period of 160 days-during which over 1400 others were abducted”. A total of 53,350 Christians had been killed in Nigeria since July 2009 and 31,350 under Buhari from June 2015-29th May 2023. Not less than 18, 100 churches and 2,200 Christian schools were burned down or destroyed in the past fourteen years or since July 2009 and under Buhari, Nasiru El-Rufai and others, 6,600 churches and 700 Christian schools were lost from June 2015-12th June 2023. Not less than 1000 Christian communities were sacked by Jihadists under Buhari, Nasiru El-Rufai and others between 2016 and June 2023 and under their security watch and directives since Jan 2021, not less than 600 Christian Synagogues and 1000 Traditional Religious Sanctuaries were destroyed or burned down by the drafted federal security forces in Old Eastern Nigeria or South-East and South-South Regions.

We Have Monitored And Exposed Persecution Of Christians And Minority Others Since 2010

Intersociety is globally known and respected for strongly advocating for end of religious radicalism through propagation of radical Islamism and fanatical Christianity in Nigeria since 2010 and has issued not less than twenty special reports or publications associated with them. Intersociety has also earned a name and international respectability as Nigeria’s leading anti Christian persecution and radical Islamism watchdog and was admitted as a member of the United States-based International Alliance against Genocide since 2020. We have been closely monitoring patterns and trends of anti Christian persecution since 2010 and killing of minority Muslims and moderate others by non state actor armed Islamists and Muslim dominated Nigerian security forces from 2015 to 2023. The patterns and trends of the state actor religious butcheries under our close watch include introduction of state radical Islamism policy by the former Government of Nigeria in 2016, introduction of Nigerian security forces dimension to anti Christian butcheries across the country such as pro Islamic internal security operations in Eastern Nigeria since 2016 involving ethnic and religious profiling associated with atrocious military operations in the East and the military protected invasion of Eastern Christian forests, bushes and farmlands by Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen since 2016. We have monitored and tracked massacre of Christians and burning down or destruction of their sacred places of worship, religious symbols, Christian schools and living houses and farmlands across the country. These are done or carried out using research, investigation, documentation and publications. We also generate statistics from local and international media, religious, community, security, research, intergovernmental, nongovernmental, human rights bodies, international parliamentary organizations or diplomatic institutions.

Vindicated By El-Rufai’s Pro State Jihadism Revelations; Seeks His Arrest And Trial At ICC

The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law has fully earned the enviable and unrivalled position as Nigeria’s “Nostradamus”. This is to the extent that we have, again, been vindicated by recent revelations by Mallam Nasiru El-Rufai, immediate past Gov of Kaduna State. The former Kaduna civilian Gov had had a video/audio clip of his boastful “successful transformation of Nigeria into Islamic State by successful replication of full Islamic rule in Kaduna State since 2015 at the Federal level”-culminating into emergence of Muslim-Muslim Presidency of Nigeria. Intersociety had severally and consistently disclosed in its several reports that the Southern Kaduna anti Christian butcheries and those of Benue, Plateau, Nassarawa, Kogi, Niger, Taraba, Adamawa and South-West, South-East and the rest are carefully planned, systematically executed and well funded State Jihadism Project; modeled after the ‘Sudanese Janjaweed’ of the Omar Hassan el-Bashir’s atrocious era (1989-2019). Intersociety had also categorically stated that its findings showed that the killings had nothing whatsoever to do with the so called “Farmers-Herders Clashes”.

It must be remembered that Gov El-Rufai had in 2015 abolished the “Kaduna Charter of Equity” by scrapping ‘powering sharing between Muslims and Christians”. He not only scrapped positions reserved for Christians including seat of Deputy Gov of the State but also deployed state machineries including coercive instruments to unleash unchecked and ceaseless attacks and persecution of Christian leaders in the State. Not only that they were several times arrested and clamped into detention  but also a number of Christian traditional rulers were killed or dethroned or sent to prisons and bylaws establishing their thrones abolished and replaced with Fulani Emirate codes.  Figures of those killed or abducted in the State have also been consistently mangled or twisted to create a questionable database that looks as if “more Muslims are being killed or abducted than Christians in the State”.  

Joining Coalition Of Nigerians In UK In Calling For Arrest And Trial Of El-Rufai And Others At ICC

Intersociety hereby joins the Coalition of Nigerians living in the United Kingdom in calling on the leaders of the Southern Kaduna, the Middle-Belt and the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) to go after Mallam el-Rufai by ensuring that he does not go scot-free or walk the streets of Nigeria and west Democracies freely as an outlaw.  The UK Government as a State-Party to the Statute of the International Criminal Court of 1998 and domestication of same which also produces the current Chief Prosecutor of the Court should ensure that the likes of El-Rufai, Buhari, Buratai, Musa Daura, Arase, Alkali Baba and the rest of the served and the serving senior security officers  in the country from the ranks of military Lieutenant Colonels and Police CSPs since August 2015 are blocked from setting their feet on UK soil or arrested and charged for crimes against humanity and genocide or incitement to same, if they do set their feet on UK Soil. Where it is found that they have appointive or elective engagements such as academic board (Oxford) in the case of El-Rufai, such appointments or elections should be terminated.

Intersociety also wishes to unequivocally state that it is morally reprehensible for the UK Government to continue to play host and open its international doors to worst violators and abusers of human rights and promoters of genocide and genocidal incitements. The UK Government cannot probate and reprobate by globally parading itself as “a Democratic and Human Rights Respecter State” and at the same time found wanting as a country encouraging or harboring grisly and egregious human rights abuses and violations and their abusers or violators. This clarion call of ours on the UK Government is also extended to the Governments of United States, Canada, France, Germany, Portugal Netherlands, Switzerland, Ireland, Scotland, Denmark, Sweden, Australia, Norway, Spain, Italy, rest of Europe and the United Nations Organization as they should avoid replicating the infamous roles of “the Three Musketeers (UK, France and Belgium)” in the Rwandan Genocide of April-July 1994.

The link to the mother report of Easter Monday, 10th April 2023 is here: https://intersociety-ng.org/5068-citizens-massacred-for-being-christians-in-nigeria-in-2022-1041-slaughtered-in-first-100-days-of-2023/

 

For: International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

 

Compiled By:

Emeka Umeagbalasi, M.Sc.

Criminologist/Researcher

Board Chair, Intersociety

Assisted By:

Chidinma Udegbunam Esquire

Intersociety’s Head, Campaign and Publicity Department

Ndidiamaka Chinaza Bernard Esquire

Intersociety’s Head, Int’l Justice and Human Rights Program

Ositadinma Agu

Intersociety’s Head, Int’l Contacts and Mobilization

Contacts: 

Phone/WhatsApp: +2348174090052

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://intersociety-ng.org

 

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Death toll in Benue communities attacks hit 40-June 3rd and 4th 2023

1.       https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/06/death-toll-in-benue-communities-attacks-hit-40/, 

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/06/again-unknown-gunmen-kill-over-25-in-fresh-attack-on-benue-communities/

 

2.       https://www.iconsnews.com/2023/06/muslim-muslim-ticket-we-shall-sustain.html?m=1(Nasiru el-Rufai confirming State Jihadism project and Islamization and Nigerian Government sponsorship of anti Christian massacres and church destructions and burning of Christian schools and imposition of Muslim-Muslim Presidency on Nigeria

 

Over 200 Christians were massacred between 15th and 17th May 2023 by Fulani Jihadists in Mangu LGA and some parts of Riyom in Plateau State and over 32 communities sacked and Baptist Church lost 50 members alone

3.       https://saharareporters.com/2023/05/25/plateau-state-residents-confirm-over-200-persons-killed-32-communities-displaced,

 

https://www.rt.com/africa/577029-villagers-protest-militant-attacks-nigeria/,

https://news.band/plateau-attack-over-500-displaced-community-says-attackers-loot-homes/

 

Over 300 Christians killed in 3 weeks of attacks (15th May-7th June 2023) in county in Plateau State of Nigeria; 28 churches destroyed. At least 300 Christians have been massacred in one county of Plateau state, Nigeria, since mid-May, including the killing of two pastors on Sunday, sources said. In Mangu County, Fulani terrorists killed the Rev. Shadrack Ayuba of the Assembly of God Nigeria church in Ntin Kombun village and the Rev. Mangmwos Tangshak Daniel of the Nigeria Baptist Convention in Kantoma village, said the Rev. Timothy Daluk, chairman of the Mangu Local Government Area Chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). Pastor Daluk said in an interview with Morning Star News in Mangu town on Tuesday that since mid-May, Fulani terrorists have killed 300 Christians, displaced 30,000 residents, destroyed 28 church buildings and 2,000 houses and looted 150 trailer loads of grains in the Mangu Local Government Area. Residents of the county’s Ajin village, near Panya town, said that on Sunday night, Fulani terrorists destroyed homes and a worship church building of the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN). The Rev. Jacob Dashop, chairman of the Provincial Church Council, Gindiri, of the COCIN, said that from May 15 to May 17, more than 200 Christians were killed in Fulani herdsmen attacks on the Mangu LGA villages of Kubwat-Bwai, Fungzai-Bwai, Aloghom-Mangu, Ntam-Mangu, Ligit-lubang/Sabon Layi-Bungha, Jwakji- Panyam, Washna-Panyam, Jwak-Maitumbi-Halle, Murish-Halle, Kikyau-Halle Danhausa-Halle, Gongong-Halle, Gyambwas-Halle, Kyampuus, Ntul-Halle, Gwet-Pushit, Jwakchom-Pushit, Larkas-Pushit, Jwak Ras-Mangu, Kantoma and Gaude.“Christians killed in Fungzai-Mangu village by Fulani terrorists are mostly women and children; they were buried in a mass grave on Tuesday, 16 May,” Pastor Dashop said.

4.  https://www.christianpost.com/news/hundreds-of-christians-killed-in-3-weeks-of-attacks-in-nigeria.html

Crackdowns on Southern Kaduna Christian Leaders continues as El-Rufai bans Southern Kaduna Group hours to end of his tenure  on 28th May 2023

5.  https://www.punchng.com/el-rufai-proscribes-southern-kaduna-group/

Buried, 18 missing (23 killed) after jihadist gunmen launched vicious attack in Takum, Taraba State on Sunday, 20th May 2023

5.    https://dailytrust.com/5-buried-18-missing-after-attack-on-community-in-taraba/

 

Again, armed herders storm Benue LG, kill 18, behead women, children on Sunday evening of 21st May 2023. The attack was carried out on the Iye community in Uvir Council Ward of Guma Local Government Area, LGA, of Benue State.

6.  https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/05/again-armed-herders-storm-benue-lg-kill-18-behead-women-children/

 

Tension in Imo community as herdsmen kill commercial motorcyclist, occupy forest on Saturday, 20th May 2023

7.   https://sunnewsonline.com/tension-in-imo-community-as-herdsmen-kill-commercial-motorcyclist-occupy-forest/

Church leaders in Plateau State said 1,000 houses and 22 churches have been burnt by bandits in the recent attacks (since April 2023) in Mangu, Bokkos and Riyom Local Government Areas

8.  https://corenews.com.ng/2023/05/22/bandits-burn-22-churches-1000-houses-in-plateau/

Bandits kill 9, injure others in Birnin-Gwari, Kaduna on 21st May 2023, killed 33 in Southern Kaduna in April 2023

9.  https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/05/bandits-kill-9-injure-others-in-kaduna/

 

BREAKING: Bloodbath In Benue As Fulani Herdsmen Kill 28 Residents In Mbawa Ward, Guma Local Council Between Sunday, 7th and Wednesday, 10th May 2023; Army, Police Operatives Demand Money To Find Corpses

10.  https://saharareporters.com/2023/05/11/breaking-bloodbath-benue-fulani-herdsmen-kill-28-residents-guma-local-council-army

No fewer than 38 residents of Takalafia and Gwanja communities in the Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa State have been killed by terror herdsmen who stormed the area on Thursday night (14th May 2023). The Pastor-in-charge of the Evangelical Church Winning All in the area, Rev. Daniel Danbeki, and 37 others were gruesomely murdered by the assailants during the attack which lasted from 9pm on Thursday night till the early hours of Friday.

11.  https://punchng.com/nasarawa-cleric-37-others-killed-by-herdsmen-buried/

The Kaduna state government says bandits killed 214 persons and abducted 746 others between January and March this year.  Samuel Aruwan, the commissioner for internal security and home affairs, reeled out the figures while presenting the 2023 first quarter security report to Nasir El-Rufai, Kaduna governor, on Wednesday. According to Aruwan, Kaduna central senatorial district recorded the highest number of casualties with 115 deaths followed by the Kaduna south and Kaduna north senatorial districts with 61 and 38 deaths respectively. “The report also indicated that of the 746 people kidnapped, Kaduna central senatorial district accounted for 492 victims followed by Kaduna south senatorial district with 221 while 33 people were abducted in Kaduna north senatorial district,” the commissioner said.

12.  https://www.thecable.ng/insecurity-over-200-people-killed-746-kidnapped-in-q1-2023-in-kaduna

Herdsmen slaughtered 33 Christians on 15th April 2023 in Runji village in Atyap, Zango Kataf LGA of Kaduna State, burned down 42 houses, killed 68 Christians in Atyap land within one month between March and April 2023, abducted 10 Christian school children on 4th April from Govt. Secondary School Avon in Kachia LGA in Southern Kaduna and sacked 245 Southern Kaduna in six years (2017-2023)-SOKAPU

13.  https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/04/killings-s-kaduna-people-marked-for-extermination-sokapu/

According to Sun Newspaper Editorial of 14th May 2023, within two weeks in April 2023, Herdsmen killed 30 persons in Plateau State and in April 2023, alone, not less than 200 Benue Christians were killed by Herdsmen including killing of 134 persons in five days and in all, over 2.5m persons have been internally displaced or sacked from their homes; over 70 persons were killed in the State between 10th and 30th of April 2023.

14.  https://www.sunnewsonline.com/attacks-on-benue-kaduna-communities/

172 persons killed in one month, between 22nd March and 22nd April 2023 in Benue and Kaduna including 25 persons killed on 10th April 2023 in Guma, Logo and Tarka LGAs and 20 killed on 20th April 2023 in Waya, Jato-Aka and Turan villages of Mbabuande in Kwande and Gwer West LGAs of the State

15.  https://www.punchng.com/172-killed-in-benue-kaduna-in-one-month/

Published by Charles Opanwa  

IPOB PRESS RELEASE: IPOB WORLDWIDE REJECT ANY SURGERY ON OUR LEADER INSIDE DSS DUNGEON.

12th June , 2023

This is the sequel to the deteriorating health condition of our leader Mazi Nnamdi KANU and the proposed ear surgery by Nigeria Government and DSS medical team. IPOB completely rejects any ill-concieved surgery on our leader, Mazi Nnamdi KANU, the leader of IPOB, who has been illegally and unconstitutionally detained in DSS  dungeon for 2 years without charge. We reiterate that he should be released to his personal physicians who will perform the prescribed ear surgery on him.  

We want to draw the attention of IPOB worldwide, all  lovers of freedom and lovers of Biafra on the dangerous plans to neutralize Mazi Nnamdi Kanu through ear surgery by the enemies on DSS medical team. 

It's obvious that DSS has intentions to eliminate our leader through this  ill-conceived ear surgery. That's why they refused to allow Mazi Nnamdi KANU access to his personal and trusted physicians. 

Therefore, we reject any DSS or Nigeria Government sponsored surgery on our leader while he is still being detained illegally in solitary confinement. 

It's true that our leader requires urgent ear surgery from the injury the Nigeria Agents inflicted on him when he was kidnapped and tortured in Kenya however, such surgery will not take place while he is still inside DSS dungeon. What will happen if he develops any medical complications during or after the surgery in the detention facilities? Mazi Nnamdi KANU must be unconditionally released as the courts ordered or released on medical grounds to attend to his health. 

If Nigerian DSS could not find a qualified ENT doctor to handle Buhari’s ear infections during his eight years in office, how come DSS suddenly have qualified ENT doctors in their team to carry out ear surgery on Mazi Nnamdi Kanu? The same way Buhari was a leader of a nation is the same way Mazi Nnamdi KANU is a leader of 75m people of Biafra Nation. IPOB is capable of taking our leader to any part of the world for the best medical services.

We, therefore, once again call on the Nigeria Government and DSS to release Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu KANU. If anything untoward happens to him, they will dance to any tune IPOB will play for them. We warn them with their  cohorts who are showcasing some doctors as Mazi Nnamdi Kanu's doctors to cease and desist. 

We urge Biafrans to oppose the planned ear surgery on Mazi Nnamdi KANU as planned by Nigeria Government and DSS agents.

There are serious indications that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will not make it alive if he goes into any operation under the enemies supervision. Mazi Chinasa Nworu will be coming on the air by the weekend to speak on this serious subject and the risk associated with the enemy's planned ear surgery on our leader. 

Let the Nigeria Government and DSS release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to his personal physicians to handle the ear surgery. DSS, who were responsible for his ear injury through the brutal torture, can not be trusted to heal him by surgery on the same ear.  Moreso, DSS must not force or medically subdue our leader in order to perform any surgery on him because that will be a declaration of war on Biafrans. If they want to see, let them try such rubbish. Mazi Nnamdi KANU needs urgent surgery, and the only option acceptable to us IPOB worldwide is his unconditional release as ordered by the courts or release on medical grounds to his personal physicians for the said ear surgery. 

We call on IPOB and MNK legal teams both home and abroad to reject the Nigeria Government's proposed ear surgery on Mazi Nnamdi KANU. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s wife and his siblings must reject such an offer, too.  Mazi Nnamdi KANU is the leader of over 75 million indigenous people of Biafra, and his health is a national concern that must not be handled carelessly. DSS and those  parading doctors in Abuja should know that Mazi Nnamdi KANU is no longer owned by the KANU family. He is now the property of 75 million Biafran people.  

In summary, IPOB, Ndigbo, and Biafrans say NO EAR SURGERY on our leader, Mazi Nnamdi KANU, by the Nigeria Government, DSS, or any other groups' medical team while he is still being illegally detained inside DSS dungeon. Instead, we call for his release from illegal detention for his private ENT doctors to handle the ear surgery. 

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL,  MEDIA, AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.

The Igbos Are Under Siege In Their Country

By Mike Ozekhome | Biafra Times 

I am shocked that the Igbos are not speaking up at the apparent siege laid on their land by uniformed person of different categories. They range from Army, Navy, Police, Civil Defence, Customs, FRSC, etc. My journey had taken me by road from Isele-Mkpitime, where I had gone to pay tribute to a Nigerian icon, Chief (Dr) P.K.C. Isagba, the Odogwu of Isele-Mkpitime. He was one of the first Nigerians to believe in my ability as a young fledgling lawyer. I had been handling his cases whilst at Chief Gani Fawehinmi’s Chambers. When I left as Deputy Head to set up my practice in January 1986, Chief Isagba personally went to Chief Gani Fawehinmi, to allow him move his files to me, to continue handling his cases; a request the amiable and selfless Gani granted immediately. So, Chief Isagba became my first major client as a tottering practising lawyer, trying to find my groggy feet. He became my bossom friend and elder brother.

My journey from Isele-Mkpitime, through Asaba, to Port-Harcourt, told me clearly that the entire Igbo land is locked down in a physical, psychological and mental siege, reminiscent of a civil war time.

When the Civil War ended January 15, 1970, the then military ruler, General “Jack” Yakubu Gowon, who became Head of State, at 31 and a bachelor, proclaimed the three Rs: “Reconciliation, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation”, which heralded his policy of “No Victor, No Vanquished”. This was after the unfortunate failure of the 4th-5th January, 1967, of the “Aburi Accord”, that would have prevented the bloody war in which over 2 million civilians and 100, 000 military combatants were killed. Or, was it an historical mistake that these people who had already manufactured “Ogbunigwe” (series of weapons, that included detonation mines, IED, and rocket propelled missiles), with which they prosecuted the Nigeria – Biafra war between 1967 and 1970, were prevented from leaving Nigeria? Perhaps, we would today have had a Japan, Singapore or South Korea lying side by side a sprawling “giant of Africa” on clay legs.

These policies were meant to quickly heal the gaping wounds of the gruesome blood-letting, forget the horrors and evils of the fratricidal war and quickly reintegrate the Igbos into the society.

But, have these hardworking, gregarious “Jews” of Nigeria been reconciled, rehabilitated and reintegrated into the mainstream of the Nigerian society? I doubt it. Simple proof: show me any Igbo man in today’s all powerful cabal kitchen cabinet of PMB’s Government. My journey from Isele-Mkpitime, Delta State, through Asaba, Onitsha, Oba, Oraifite, Okija, Ihiala, Mgbidi, Awomama, Owerri, Aba to Port-Harcourt, was a strangulating reminder that the Igbos, inspite of their unquantifiable contributions to the commerce, industry and innovations that drive the non-oil sector of the Nigerian economy and give it oxygen, are nearly a conquered people. The check-points along the above stretch of road are nauseating and asphyxiating, as the security agencies, including para-military ones out-do each other to harass, torment, search, intimidate and extort money from travelers.

Earlier journeys by road (I travel a lot on professional duties), had shown me the same siege through countless roadblocks: Enugu, through the Ugwogo Nike-Opi-Nsukka Road; Amansea in Awka-Ugwuoba Oji River; Nnewi, Alor, Ekwulobia, Amesi, Ugar, Umuchu; Okigwe, Awgu and Ituku Ozalla, Umuahia and Isiala-Ngwa, on Enugu-Port Harcourt expressway. On the Umuahia-Ikot Ekpene highway, you have exasperating road blocks at Michael Okpara University junction; Isingwu-Nkweogwu junction of the Isuikwuato-Uzuakoli-Ajayi-Igbere road; and the 14 Brigade Army barracks junction at the Ohafia-Arochukwu highway.

As you are crossing one check point, a mere look ahead of you, of less than half a kilometer, will reveal another barricade. It is all so frustrating. There is no war, or security breach. South East is not North East where Boko Haram still calls the shots (forget about Government’s pet words of “we have degraded Boko Haram”; Boko Haram is still very potent, controlling large areas, killing and maiming people on a daily basis. Their representative said that much at the 2nd May, 2017, Re-Union meeting of the 2014 National Conference delegates at Daar Communications Centre, Abuja, where I delivered the keynote address).

Yet, in this Boko Haram-ravaged region, you would not find this armada of security, treating the entire geo-political zone made up of five states (the least in Nigeria; some others have seven states), like a conquered territory.

It is only the recent suit by my good friend, Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, (six of us founded the Civil Liberties Organization (CLO) – the first human rights body in Nigeria-on 15th October, 1987), over “marginalisation of the South East region”, that has perhaps brought to the front burner, these disturbing tons of injustice. That is why no one can ignore Nnamdi Kanu and his IPOB, Ralph Uwazurike’s MASSOB, etc, agitating for self –determination, a right sanctioned and recognised even by the UNO.

These fully armed and trigger-happy security personnel have never taken steps to protect the Igbo race, against rampaging Fulani Herdsmen that raid their homes, to maim, kill and rape their wives (remember Nimbo in Uzo Uwani LGA in Enugu State). They have never repelled the incessant reign of terror by armed robbers, kidnappers, hired assassins and murderers. No, they are stationed there for three main reasons: (1) check the bid for self determination by the Igbos; (2) extort money from the wealthy and poor Igbo traders who ply these routes; (3) remind the Igbos that the all powerful Federal Government is on ground to silence the people and force them to toe their ruling party line. Wait a minute; is that why some prominent Igbos, including erstwhile leaders, members of the BOT and two-time Governors for eight years under PDP, have been outdoing each other to decamp to a non-performing and fundamentally flawed party like the APC? Let me end this piece by recommending to the Ndigbos, the legendary Hubert Ogunde’s immortal words, in his most famous 1964 play, “Yoruba Ronu” (“Yorubas, think”), a stinging satire that got his theatre company banned, which ban was later lifted in 1966, by the new military Governor.

Ndigbos, cheenu echiche (Igbos, think).

You lied! Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is not getting proper medical attention - IPOB thunders

IPOB PRESS STATEMENT

FEBRUARY 11, 2023 | THE BIAFRA TIMES 

The attention of the global movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the able Leader; Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has been drawn to the insulting and provoking statement credited to the infamous DSS agents that Mazi Nnamdi KANU is being properly taken care of inside their dungeon by the lawless DSS criminal agency. 

Again, we want Biafrans, Nigerians, and the International Community  to know that Nigerian Department of State Services (DSS) has continued to deny Mazi Nnamdi Kanu access to his personal doctor as ordered by the court, and has not provided him with his medical records either. He is not being provided with his prescription medication regularly. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is still being starved because his feeding has also not improved. According to IPOB lawyer, Barr. Ejiofor and others who visited Mazi Nnamdi Kanu the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra on Thursday the 9th of February 2023, there is no improvement in his deteriorating health condition. Our leader's health is deteriorating daily inside DSS solitary confinement, while DSS continues to defy the judgment and legitimate orders of courts of competent jurisdiction.

The spurious claim therefore by the lawless DSS that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is properly being taken care of medically, is not just an insult to the sensibilities of Biafrans, but very provocative as well. 

IPOB has maintained a peaceful and nonviolent stance in our movement and struggle to restore Biafra, and we intend to continue the peaceful agitation for a Biafra Independence referendum. But this peaceful struggle will not be guaranteed if anything happens to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in the DSS dungeon. If anything untoward happens to our leader in the hands of the Nigeria government and DSS, it will be a tit for tat towards any individual, group, and institution that is involved in the kidnap and extraordinary rendition of our leader from Kenya to Nigeria and much much more.

We have consistently urged and demanded that the Nigeria government should stop its flagrant disregard to Court orders and judgements ordering the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally such as that given by the Abuja Appeal Court, or return Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to Kenya as ordered by the Umuahia High Court but the Nigerian government has continued to ignore this demand and is rather making a mockery of the Judiciary.

We are putting the world and every country and organization remotely interested in the affairs of Nigeria on notice that keeping mute  at this level of injustice being mated out in particular to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra Mazi Nnamdi KANU and generally to the Biafran people, will certainly precipitate an disorderly implosion of the contraption called Nigeria.

Once again we call on the American government and her Embassy, British government and her High Commissioner in Abuja, Russia government and her Embassy in Abuja, Israeli government and her Embassy in Abuja, German government and her Embassy in Abuja, Canadian government and her Embassy in Abuja, Australia government and her Embassy in Abuja, UN Office in Abuja, AU office in Abuja, ECOWAS office in Abuja, EU Office in Abuja, Amnesty International Nigeria, Human Rights Watch, Intersociety in Nigeria, and other reputable Human Rights Organisations to prevail on the Nigeria government to understand the urgency and imparativeness of releasing Mazi Nnamdi KANU forthwith and unconditionally so that he can properly attend to his deteriorating health situation and avoid the very dire consequences that is staring all of us in the face.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL, MEDIA, AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB

Biafra: Kill Kanu And Even A Cat Will Not Survive

Photo File: Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra 

Biafra: Kill Kanu And Even A Cat Will Not Survive

By Eluwa Chidiebere Chinazu | Biafra Writers

January 29, 2023

In a bid to get back at Kanu for waking the psyche of Nigerian youths, Kanu is misunderstood by some quarters. Some see him as representing only the Igbo, and this somehow have them desiring his death. In reality however, Kanu is about every oppressed people of Nigeria, and not just one ethnic nationality.

Psychologically, Kanu has become incontestably a cancer that has eaten deep into the heart of the Nigerian citizens. For instance, hidden truths in Nigeria were all exposed by Kanu. These are secrets that no one dared to touch, but Kanu, a fearless man, busted it all, winning for himself, the heart of the Nigerian youths.

For example, how will you convince the Hausa people to hate a man who taught them their history and gave them hope of regaining their lost land? Will you tell a Yoruba person to join you in crucifying an innocent man whose only crime was telling them the truth of how their ancestors failed to the trick of the Fulani race by fighting against their own blood, Afonja. The Middle Belt is still counting their losses till date because they fought against the innocent Biafra.

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The stubborn Igbo race doesn't play with the life of any of their sons. Hurting the Igbo race will be suicidal given the fact that they are the only race found everywhere in Nigeria and around the world. Should this race decide to toe the part of violence, even heaven can never be their limit.

The Kraken is about to be released. The military will be overwhelmed by the rage of the people. Martin Luther King Jr’s death consequences will be a caricature to what is about to befall Nigeria.

Kanu only spoke on Radio Biafra to awaken the consciousness of the Nigerian youths and the aftermath was the peaceful EndSars protest that nearly crumbled the country even as Biafrans distanced themselves. Imagine a violent uprising that the Great Biafrans are part of. Just like the British soldiers sang "The World Turned Around," Nigerian soldiers shall.

When this fire lights, no corner will be left unscathed. Even the cat that has nine lives will be swallowed alive. By then there will be nothing left of Nigeria.

Edited by Nelson Ofokar Yagazie

Published by Charles Opanwa 

Kanu and Hisbah Religious police, which is constitutionally treasonous in a secular state

 

Written by Eluwa Chidiebere Chinazu | Biafra Writers 

October 28th, 2022.

The incarceration of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, by the Department of State Security (DSS), and the open consent and support given to an unconstitutional religious police force (Hisbah) by the federal government, should stand as a beacon of lesson to non-Muslim Nigerians, believers of a workable Nigeria, as to the direction the country is heading.

Nnamdi Kanu obviously is fighting for self-determination as enshrined in the Nigerian constitution. Under the Nigerian law, the African Charter on Human and People's right Act 2, 1983, which is now contained in Cap 10 laws of the federal republic of Nigeria, 1990, Nnamdi Kanu is legally and constitutionally right in agitating for self-determination. 

For clarity sake, Article xx(1) of this Charter provides that "All People shall have the right to existence. They shall have unquestionable and inalienable right to self-determination. They shall freely determine their political status and shall pursue their economic and social development according to the policy they have freely chosen." Even the Nigeria Supreme Court validated this Charter in Gani Fawehinmi versus Abacha [2000] 4 SCNJ 401. There's no area of the law (local and international) that interprets self-determination as an act of treason.

Talking about treason, why is the Nigerian mainstream media willfully blind at the treasonous activities of the Hisbah religious police in the country? To begin with, the establishment of the Hisbah religious police is unconstitutional. No law in Nigerian constitution validates the establishment of a state religion. Nigeria as a secular state prohibits state religion and so the continuation of Hisbah religious police, calls for immediate proscription of the group. If not, then every state in Nigeria should have its own state religion.

In a secular state, everyone has the right to live according to the dictates of their own conscience. There's no law in the Nigerian constitution that bars people from taking alcoholic drinks, playing music, cohabitation of both sex, etc. So on which constitution are the Hisbah religious police operating? 

Obviously, the individuals who instituted the Hisbah religious police must have drafted a different law for themselves in Nigeria which supersedes the Nigerian constitution. This, in all ramifications, is tantamount to treason but the mainstream media in Nigeria turns a blind eye.

The section 37 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended in 1999, gave Nigerians the right to "private life." In the same Nigerian constitution section 38, Article 8 of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights, it also gave Nigerians right to ''thought and religion." So any person or group of people infringing on those rights, should be proscribed as a terrorist organization, or better still, be charged for treason.

While Hisbah has proven to be unconstitutional and so should be proscribed, the Kano state commissioner for information, Muhammed Garba, in an interview with The ICIR, has stated clearly that Hisbah will punish anyone – Muslim or Christian – that goes against, not the laws of the federal government, but that of sharia laws of Hisbah religious police.

The questions are: why the shift of attention to Kanu instead of the Hisbah religious police that is destroying Nigerian businesses in the north all in the name of protecting their faith? Kanu and Hisbah religious police, who should be in court in a secular state? Should Christians then have their own religious police, enforce Christian laws and declare a Christian state?

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Nnamdi Kanu: Court of appeal ruling is final, stop being a clown - IPOB to Malami

October 19, 2022 | The Biafra Times 

IPOB PRESS STATEMENT 

MALAMI, STOP CHASING  THE SHADOW OF IGBO GOVERNORS AND POLITITCIANS AND FOCUS ON THE SUBSTANCE OF  THE COURT OF APPEAL  JUDGEMENT ON MAZI NNAMDI KANU

The attention of the global movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the leadership and command of the great liberator and prophet Mazi Nnamdi KANU has been drawn to the unintelligent, disgraceful and incoherent  statements credited to the Attorney General Alhaji Abubakar Malami to the effect that the Igbo Governors and politicians will decide whether Mazi Nnamdi KANU will be released unconditionally. 

What a clownish statement from the chief law officer of Nigeria , a SAN for that matter who should know better. Such illogical statements from the Nigerian government and its officials is one among many justifications for calling Nigeria the ZOOLOGICAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.

IPOB believes that these Igbo Governors and polititcians that Malami want to turn into a reviewing panel of the judgement of a competent court of Jurisdiction the Court of Appeal know the game and evil intention of the AGF and will certainly not fall for his *Greek poison* parkaged in the deceptive form of making them relevant. IPOB can confidently posit that these governors and politicians are more intelligent than the fulani quota system Attorney General and Minister of Justice of the Federation. This fulani terrorists sponsoring Government think that their divide and conquer tactics will work for them this time around in their attempt to try and shift the responsibility of the continued illegal incarceration of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra on the governors and politicians of South East extraction. Their agenda to create confusion and more problems in Igboland won't  work. We will not allow them to do this again to our people. 

IPOB wants to ask Malami when did Igbo Governors and politicians become a Court of superior mandate in Nigeria to decide if Mazi Nnamdi Kanu our Leader will be released unconditionally or not after the Appeal Court the second highest Court of competent jurisdiction has made a well reasoned ruling  already. It seems Malami does not have the buckle to approach the Supreme Court now that the Aeroplane turner is no longer in charge hence the desire to supplant and foreclose that channel with trying to implicate governors and politicians of South East origin. Igbo Governors and politicians should understand this gimmick before going to any meeting that the Caliphate Government will call them to. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was discharged and acquitted by the Appeals Court not by Igbo governors and politicians. But if any Igbo Governor or Polititian choose to be a willing tool and a useful idiot of the Caliphate, let that soul take over the responsibility of deciding if OHAMADIKE will be released or not. We dare that individual or group. 

Malami and APC Government must release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally as declared by the Appeal Court and recommended by the UN Human Rights Working Group without delay because he committed no crime known to either Local or International law.

Malami have been releasing terrorists from prison without taking them to court but have decided to play a demy god by this attempt to disregard and disobey the judgement of the Court  of Appeal, as it has ignored the opinion of the UN Human Rights Working Group. 

We are still wondering how this kind of individual became a lawyer let alone become the Attorney General of a supposed democratic Nation. If an Attorney General of a Nation who is supposed to uphold the Justice system in a constitutional democracy is the one destroying the rule of Law, then Nigerians are  in a big political mess with these kind of government officials saddled with immense responsibility of governance and upholding the law.

Malami, your flagrant disobedience to the Appeals Court and UN Human Rights Working Group rulings and opinions respectively on the issue of the unconditional release of Mazi Nnamdi KANU will secure you a room in ICC jail in the future. If you think MAZI NNAMDI KANU or IPOB will surrender or retreat, you're just dreaming. 

If you're not careful, the BIAFRA project and Mazi Nnamdi KANU will consume you and your collaborators because we have the backing of the Almighty Chukwu Okike Abiama. 

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL, MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.

Nigeria and the Politics of Blackmail; the Mbaka Example

By Nelson Ofokar Yagazie | Biafra Times

October 15th, 2022.

For a very long time now, the Nigerian government has been fighting tooth and neck to extinguish Biafra agitation. One would think that, as one of the countries that mouth Human Rights, this fight is legally, civilly and diplomatically orchestrated. But hell, no, it is everything but civil, legal and diplomatic. Armaments and troops are mobilized in a war fashion against civilians armed with nothing but flags and T-shirts.

For agitating for freedom, people are gunned down as though they were guinea fowls. Folks are abducted in their homes and either illegally detained or summarily dealt with. Nevertheless, the people's desire for freedom seems unwavering as the more they are massacred the more poised they become.

Having failed even in unbridled violence, blackmail became their most potent weapon. Not only do state players commit murder unprovoked, they will do so and try to pin it on IPOB members. They do this just to de-market the outfit and the struggle it champions. A state that indiscriminately kills its own citizens to discredit a freedom quest is beyond verbal description.

In recent time we have seen Nigerian elements up their game of blackmail against the IPOB. Despite the group crying loud that they are innocent, armless and harmless, the conspiratorial media indulges the government.

But Nigerian government isn't the only quarter involved in the game of blackmail. The wider society is. As we all know, the government is a mirror of the society, for leaders don't fall from the sky. Nor do the media arm.

The latest victim of their mischief is the fiery priest, Reverend Father Ejike Camilus Mbaka, the spiritual director of Adoration Ministries, Enugwu. In the past the eccentric priest had gravitated towards Buhari and APC led government, but he seems to have retraced his steps recently. And while he isn't for the APC anymore, he however doesn't seem to think much of Obi and his Obi-dient movement.

Father Mbaka had made comments that weren't the nicest with regards to Peter Obi's political aspirations, and the Catholic Church, absolving self of partisan politics had, as a deterrent, issued a punitive measure to him.

The priest had recoiled to his shell, serving his punishment faithfully. But the mischief makers wouldn't let him. They have to spice it up with blackmail. They concocted a very careless and insensitive statement, credited to him and have it circulated both in the mainstream media and social media.

Reading the circulating fabrication, it's obvious that those behind it intended to draw sympathy for Obi. While it's politically wise to draw sympathy for a candidate, it's evil to achieve that with blackmail.

It does seem once Nigerians disagree with you on a particular issue, they go overboard. Blackmail and forgery are just tools to them. It's one thing to disagree with someone; it's another thing to blackmail him. I for one have disagreed with Mbaka in the past; I have disagreed with some other men of God. In fact, I have disagreed with Christianity and still do. Nothing is wrong with differing in opinion, but everything becomes wrong when you dive into blackmail.

Mbaka is suffering a tiny portion of what Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB have been suffering for long. Well, he has come forward to issue a disclaimer. He has, in a video message, denied making such nasty statement being credited to him. It's sad how evil Nigerians can be.

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We are not interested in your election and campaign - IPOB

 

IPOB PRESS RELEASE 

October 8, 2022 | The Biafra Times

IPOB HAS NO BUSINESS WITH NIGERIA ELECTION AND THEIR CAMPAIGN. 

We the global movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) led and commanded by Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is very much aware that the Nigeria Government is both directly and indirectly sponsoring election violence in Biafra land with the intention to blackmail the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Internationally as anti democratic process.

The IPOB leadership has for umpteenth time stated unequivocally that part of our modus operandi in our agitation for freedom has never been, is not and will not be violent agitation. This explains our consistent demand for the UN to organise a Referendum in the Biafran territory for the Biafran people to determine their destiny. To this effect, IPOB is neither contemplating nor will it  encouraged or sponsor anyone or group to disrupt the Zoo Nigeria shambolic selection process called election. IPOB has constantly made it public that we have no interest in and cannot legitimise the aberration they call election in Nigeria. We are a focused, determined and disciplined freedom fighting movement not political thugs and IPOB is devoted to the cause of liberating our people for subjugation and from modern day slavery and Neo-colonialism and will not allow ourselves to be distracted from this very objective.

The world must hold to account the Nigeria Government and the criminals it is covertly recruiting and positioning in the South East to create an environment of violence and after causing the violence, will use the Zoo shameless and fantastically compromised and corrupt  Media to blame IPOB for the election violence that they themselves instigated and executed during campaigns and their shambolic elections. IPOB is not part of Zoological Republic sham election and will never be part of them. IPOB is solely focused on Biafra Independence struggle which Nigeria Government and her Allies are working very hard to try and derail with their daily propaganda and blackmail against Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB members worldwide. They will always fail because the restoration Biafra as Free Sovereign and Independent Nation is Divinely ordained and its time is now.

Our demands are simple:

1. Release the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra  Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu Kanu unconditionally.

2. Fix a Referendum date for Biafrans to decide their fate either for FREEDOM in a Sovereign Biafran Nation or for Permanent subjugation and oppression in the Fulani controlled Islamic republic of Nigeria.

As we have said in our previous press releases, Nigeria Government and her compromised Security Agencies are responsible for most criminalities going-on in Biafraland and some other parts of Nigeria. This very fact has been confirmed by Nigeria Army officers in their letter to the Buhari the impostor in Aso Rock while protesting poor welfare, low morale, corruption in the Army as an institution and lack of adequate working tools to the effect that some of their men are involved in kidnapping and other sundry  crimes for survival. What a shame, this is the smoking gun that has hitherto been missing. So when they will recruit these criminals in uniform and their civilian partners or JTF's to cause violence in Biafraland during and after campaigns and  selection, the International community should know who to hold responsible and that will be the Nigerian government.

The current political atmosphere in the Nigeria election campaigns shows that the oppressed and disgruntled Youths are on one side while the old who are comfortable with their oppressors are on the other side. You don't need any prophet to tell you that this election may end up like 2020 #ENDSARS that brought the youths to the streets in protest across Nigeria. Recollect that the #ENDSARS mass protest led by the youths was infiltrated and hijacked by violent thugs on the pay roll and at the behest of the Nigerian government and blamed on IPOB. Nigerian government is warming up to do same again during this their selection process. 

If Nigeria Government keep playing ostrich this time around what happened in Nigeria in October 2020 might be a child's play to what will happen this time.

IPOB is not interested and will never involve ourselves in any Nigeria fraudulent preelection or postelection issues. Our job is to open the eyes of the blinds by the gospel of truth which our leader has delivered already. 

Whoever, that is sponsoring any group or gang tagging them IPOB is on his/her own.

For those who are hard of hearing, IPOB is *ONE INDIVISIBLE FAMILY* under one Central Command and leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu Kanu. This divine movement is being piloted by the Only Structure which Mazi Nnamdi Kanu put in place and that Structure is the *Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra (DOS)* with Mazi Chika Edoziem as the Head of the DOS. Anyone who chooses to play foolish and act dumb is fully in his/her right to do so but IPOB cannot answer for their foolishness neither shall IPOB be responsible for their stupidity. If in the future IPOB Leadership decides to make further statement on the upcoming Nigeria selection process called election, we shall make such statement through our official channels which are *(1) Announcement on our hallowed radio station  Radio Biafra or (2) Press Statement from IPOB Publicity Secretary.* Any other  information claiming to emanate from IPOB but not issued through the above two channels is not only deceitful but fraudulent and does not represent the position of the Indigenous People of Biafra led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.